June Clark’s Perseverance of Memory
June Clark’s Tubman (2023) is a large, mixed-media sculpture that captivates a glance immediately. Vertical strips of red, blue, and white yarn are bound…
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A Clinic the Size of the World
And, like the world, a lunatic asylum is a mosaic of the passions. —An asylum doctor in the Sarthe, 1837 Upon discovering an illness,…
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An Alien Echo at the Gwangju Biennale
I arrived at the 14th Gwangju Biennale intrigued but skeptical about its goals. This year’s title is Soft and Weak Like Water, an aphorism…
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Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto
The UK-based and Toronto-born Athena Papadopoulos created the sculptures for her recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), her first institutional…
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Working It
In an interview about her 2003 performance Untitled, in which she had sex with an art collector on camera for a sum initially reported…
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Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India
I remember the day I first attempted to get my Aadhaar identification card made ten years ago. Every resident in my housing complex had…
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Bad Reviews
I took a community-college workshop five years ago with Kirk Stoller, an artist whose work I could look at forever. Kirk used carpentry tailings…
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Momus & Forge Project Announce Participants of “Estuaries”
Forge Project and Momus are pleased to announce the participants in Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency, which will be led by Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoa)…
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Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang
While I had followed their work for some time, I did not meet Catalina Ouyang until last fall, at a symposium at Stanford University…
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Azza El Siddique Summons Life Beyond Death
Sometimes called an alchemist, Azza El Siddique treats the act of making as just the beginning of a process that the artwork carries on….
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